Glacier Tiles by plonc.

What does it mean to fix into surface the traces of something that is, by nature, always vanishing?

Ice resists permanence. It fractures, drifts, reforms, and dissolves. To translate this ephemerality into porcelain is not imitation, but authorship, an act of giving material form to the invisible chronologies of climate and time.

plonc.’s Glacier Tile takes its cue from aerial geographies of ice shelves and drifting floes. In relief, one reads fracture lines, soft undulations, and the quiet dispersal of fragments into flow. These are not decorative patterns, but geological inscriptions, impressions of processes normally too slow, too vast, to register at the scale of a room.

As Gaston Bachelard observed, immensity is not distant, it is interior. Glacier is not conceived as an object of viewing, but as resonance. A meditation on scale, fragility, and transformation, carried into architecture through surface.

Light interacts with Glacier unevenly. It gathers in depressions, breaks along ridges, and shifts subtly throughout the day. The tile does not perform; it records. It does not decorate; it bears witness.

To live with Glacier is to invite into space the paradox of ice: monumental yet dissolving, ancient yet fragile, stable yet always in motion. Here, porcelain becomes not commodity, but testimony, a crafted topography that holds within it the memory of earth’s changing thresholds.

Material Notes

Format: 1200 × 600 × 9 mm

Finish: matte porcelain with layered relief

Colour register: pale greys and mineral whites with tonal depth

Authored by plonc.